Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 581 674
Rank change year-on-year -98 +93 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 125 85 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.17% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.19% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 97 54 55
10th Percentile £64,000 - -
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +28.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £97,000 £95,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -16.13% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 109,855 44,157 67,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 74,567 25,766 38,707
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -102 114 £72,500 -9.38% 56
UK excluding London -78 65 £72,500 +11.54% 19
London -82 52 £80,000 - 36
Work from Home -41 47 £80,000 +19.40% 20
East of England -5 26 £72,500 -3.33%
North of England -45 21 £75,000 +25.00% 9
North West -21 10 £80,000 +33.33% 3
Midlands -42 10 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands - 10 £70,000 -
North East - 9 £75,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 6 £75,000 -
Yorkshire -36 2 £65,000 -1.52% 6
South East -39 1 £85,000 - 6
South West - 1 - - 2

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 October 2026, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 125 (100.00%) Python
2 53 (42.40%) AWS
3 43 (34.40%) AI
4 37 (29.60%) Software Engineering
5 33 (26.40%) CI/CD
6 31 (24.80%) Azure
6 31 (24.80%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (24.80%) RESTful
7 26 (20.80%) Validation
8 23 (18.40%) API Design
8 23 (18.40%) Generative AI
9 22 (17.60%) Docker
10 21 (16.80%) FastAPI
10 21 (16.80%) Test Automation
11 20 (16.00%) Observability
11 20 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (15.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (14.40%) Continuous Delivery
13 18 (14.40%) Event-Driven
13 18 (14.40%) Kubernetes
13 18 (14.40%) Mentoring
13 18 (14.40%) Swagger
14 16 (12.80%) Agile
14 16 (12.80%) SQL
15 15 (12.00%) Containerisation
15 15 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (12.00%) MongoDB
16 14 (11.20%) Kafka
16 14 (11.20%) RabbitMQ
17 13 (10.40%) JavaScript

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.40%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 53 (42.40%) AWS
2 31 (24.80%) Azure
3 12 (9.60%) SaaS
4 11 (8.80%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (8.80%) Azure Service Bus
4 11 (8.80%) GitHub
4 11 (8.80%) Serverless
5 6 (4.80%) GCP
6 5 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.20%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.40%) Datadog
8 3 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.80%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.80%) MQTT
2 9 (7.20%) Broadband
3 3 (2.40%) 4G
3 3 (2.40%) 5G
3 3 (2.40%) DNS
3 3 (2.40%) HTTP
3 3 (2.40%) SSH
3 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.60%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.00%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.60%) DynamoDB
3 7 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.40%) MySQL
4 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.40%) Pinecone
4 3 (2.40%) Redis
5 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.60%) Chroma
5 2 (1.60%) GIS
6 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.80%) Milvus
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Git
2 9 (7.20%) GitLab
3 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.40%) Selenium
General
1 14 (11.20%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.60%) Finance
3 11 (8.80%) Front Office
4 10 (8.00%) Health Technology
4 10 (8.00%) Tech for Good
5 9 (7.20%) Games
6 6 (4.80%) Banking
7 5 (4.00%) Legal
8 4 (3.20%) Law
8 4 (3.20%) Publishing
9 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.80%) Advertising
11 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (24.80%) RESTful
2 21 (16.80%) FastAPI
3 18 (14.40%) Swagger
4 14 (11.20%) Kafka
4 14 (11.20%) RabbitMQ
5 13 (10.40%) React
6 11 (8.80%) OpenAPI
7 10 (8.00%) Node.js
8 9 (7.20%) HTML
9 7 (5.60%) CSS
9 7 (5.60%) Flask
9 7 (5.60%) REST
10 6 (4.80%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 6 (4.80%) Jinja
10 6 (4.80%) Terraform
11 5 (4.00%) .NET
11 5 (4.00%) Django
11 5 (4.00%) Pandas
12 4 (3.20%) Next.js
13 3 (2.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.40%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.80%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.20%) Low-Code
3 9 (7.20%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (6.40%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.60%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.80%) Equities
6 6 (4.80%) Hedge funds
6 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.40%) Robotics
9 2 (1.60%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.60%) Derivative
9 2 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.60%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.80%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.80%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Unix
2 1 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.40%) AI
2 37 (29.60%) Software Engineering
3 33 (26.40%) CI/CD
4 31 (24.80%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (20.80%) Validation
6 23 (18.40%) API Design
6 23 (18.40%) Generative AI
7 21 (16.80%) Test Automation
8 20 (16.00%) Observability
9 19 (15.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (14.40%) Continuous Delivery
10 18 (14.40%) Event-Driven
10 18 (14.40%) Mentoring
11 16 (12.80%) Agile
12 15 (12.00%) Containerisation
12 15 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (8.80%) Acceptance Criteria
13 11 (8.80%) Clean Code
13 11 (8.80%) DevOps
13 11 (8.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 125 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (12.80%) SQL
3 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.80%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.20%) Go
6 6 (4.80%) C++
7 4 (3.20%) Bash
7 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.60%) Rust
9 1 (0.80%) Bicep
9 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
1 2 (1.60%) Degree
1 2 (1.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) QA
System Software
1 22 (17.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (14.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.80%) Grafana
3 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (1.60%) Mistral
1 2 (1.60%) OpenAI